old bob at herne bay

More comedy with Lambert being signed by BV as a “ long term injury replacement” for Fricke. Lmao “long term “ will be tonight and assuming BV win on aggregate ( personally I hope that they are stuffed and Lambert suffers 4 engine failures) plus a couple more meetings . Next season he’ll be in Poland Sweden and maybe SGP. Did Lemmon learn his tactics from the boys at Poole??

Tell that to the Glasgow Tigers website - still not announced there ! At least Poole website is up to date.

It’s official……seen on the Pirates website …. Now 6pm Sunday !

Twitter now saying tonight’s meeting at Glasgow postponed due to rain, being restated Sunday 2nd October. ? No other source has confirmed this ? Bet Glasgow wish they had carried on in the original restaging with a good crowd in and the possibility of a small win on the night. ?

Inevitable news. How ANYONE ever thought that speedway racing would return to Blunsdon with a new housing estate over the safety fence, or near enough to splatter their washing with shale must have been dreaming i Really makes Oxford look like a remarkable achievement considering the pressure on land usage, and the lack of support from the powers that be in assisting them with a choice of race night ! I assume that this thread will now be moved to the "Defunct Tracks" folder

Think we have a classic two legged tie where neither team can ride each others "muckheap" (to quote Phil the Ace). Big Track / Little Track.

Got to say that with the p. off opposition being from the wettest place on the planet might be sometime before this tie will be settled. Maybe a roof on the “national speedway stadium” would have been a good investment?

Agree With you Joseq7. It is totally wrong. Could be simply fixed by taking the aggregate scores after the same number of heats in the return leg.? In cricket in a rain affected match each side is allotted the same number of overs to get the runs

Next stage in the planned demise of UK league speedway is surely home meetings every other week.

From bend three makes a good point. After the demise of the last incarnation of the Wimbledon Dons I was friendly with a handful of ex Dons supporters who regularly travelled to EB on a Saturday evening.

I will be called the usual “miserable old git” etc etc but it does beg the question how any of the now dormant clubs eg Rye House, Lakeside, Coventry , Sittingbourne, Newcastle ( tempted to include Swindon as their fence must be past it’s sell by date) can ever hope to be resurrected faced with such large start up costs…..that’s before they have even got on paying spectator in their stadiums. You might think that there must be someone somewhere with a collection of old air fences, starting gates, and other paraphernalia which could aid new start up clubs ? Can you imagine going to Dragons Den as a prospective speedway club business start up ?? lol.

Some have picked up on the Landlords reluctance to allow NDL speedway at Arlington. Looking at the headline start up costs listed by MD - other than lower rider sign on fees, don’t see there is much difference ? MD posted”Air Fence (£30000) Tractor, Shale, Possible track equipment (including new starting gate), Rider sign on fees, Upfront money for medical cover insurances. “ The successful NDL team at Arlington run by Dugard consortium, ran on the previously owned track hardware. Starting from scratch is a different challenge

One more season then….. 2023 :-)

Guess this will be another announcement along the lines of Pboro unable to guarantee to the League that they can defo finish season season 2023 ….. so will not be able to declare they are running .

All sounds very predictable. Who would invest circa £100k into a sport which is in clear decline in the UK. As well as losing their main sponsors - they have by now surely lost a good number of regular supporters. Attendances were never great at Arlington in recent years - and speedway there never seemed to be viable on anything but a Saturday evening. Sad - yet another defunct track to be added to those I have visited :-(

Havelock as Poole TM must be worth 10 points to Plymouth ?

Wonder what the total number of speedway fans in the Uk is nowadays .? Assuming only a minority support more than on track, it might be 15,000? Amazes me the support for the SGP …. Guess most are travelling fans from overseas?

even after today's postponement, I assume Poole can still insist on holding the 2nd leg ?

Thanks for the info " Racers and Royals" . If nothing else it would be interesting to see if I even receive a reply.

Once again the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB) have created a PR disaster for British Speedway. Secrecy over such serious matters is not acceptable. What sort of role models are they creating when findings of riders "taking banned substances" are not made public. The decisions on punishments seem entirely arbitrary...... surely bans should be stipulated for a number of fixtures rather than some timeframe over the close season? I cannot help but recall an English International rider who was banned for a season for merely riding around a lap the wrong way. Seems drug offences in Speedway are viewed much more lightly.

Once again the BSPA has created a PR disaster for British Speedway. Secrecy over such serious matters is not acceptable. What sort of role models are they creating when findings of riders "taking banned substances" are not made public. The decisions on punishments seem entirely arbitrary...... surely bans should be stipulated for a number of fixtures rather than some timeframe over the close season? I cannot help but recall an English International rider who was banned for a season for merely riding around a lap the wrong way. Seems drug offences in Speedway are viewed much more lightly.

The BSPA have got the wrong compound Anlas tyre. These are not the ones used in FIM SGP events.

Promoters only paying riders for 10 races - spectators paying for 15 races. MUGGED off again.

Seems like the sport has entered a new era…. Exploding tyres (P boro), setting light to the tracks (Glasgow) added the the reasons I stopped going endless delays and teams of gusts and r/r , my only surprise is that there are people still paying £20 each plus travel to watch the smouldering embers of a once great sport. Nothing I read would tempt me back to watch.

Ah yes - I see Oxford have replaced Kent in the "championship" taken half their team with 'em too ! Last meeting I attended was back last season was at Sittingbourne think Eastbourne were the visitors. Seemed a good time to pack up speedway. Don't think the " end is nigh" iain b , sure it will linger on for a good few seasons. We haven't even got down to one league yet. Lots of clubs are "maybe's" for 2023 which seem to occur every season ....just commenting on the here and now.